how to run gcc command in script to exe main.c

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I'm new in linux trying to run .C program from another directory in script. script is in home directory and .C program is in Desktop directory. here is script.

#!/bin/bash chmod 777 myscript cd /home/unifi-007/Desktop/ gcc main -o main.c ./main

But i'm not getting it right. how to execute main.c in script.

Lee Duhem · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-17 06:50:03Z

The usage of gcc is clearly wrong, it should be gcc -o main main.c.

BTW, .C is a suffix for C++ (at least for GCC it is), not C.

BTW again, normally, you do not run a C source file, you compile it, and run the executable file generated by compiler (by linker, actually).

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